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BY: NewsPeddlers
Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on
Sustainable Development Goals, Hon Princess Adejoke Orelope Adefulire’s quest
for the red chamber of Nigeria’s apex national legislative house, the Senate,
came crashing due to her lack of basic secondary school certificate.
Hon. Orelope
Adefulire a former Deputy Governor of Lagos State was a roadside hairdresser
before she was conscripted into public office, her handlers then availed her a computer-generated
secondary school certificate at the outset of her political trajectory as a
Commissioner in the Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission, (LASIEC).
As reported by Heritage News, her tenures as a Lagos State
legislator, commissioner and deputy Governor had her upgrading her educational
status to becoming a degree holder, but those familiar with her educationnal
pursuits know she neither attended classes nor personally sit for tests and
examinations, she had her Lagos State University degree via the services
proxies and “special reverence” for politicians.
The SDG Office boss who had summoned all the
party chairmen in Lagos West to an hotel in Ikeja, the state capital, to sign
her senatorial nomination and expression of interest forms for Lagos West,
preparatory to her open declaration, had to step down from contesting the
position, when it became obvious that the Abdullahi Adamu led National Working
Committee of the governing All Progressives Congress, APC, party took the issue
of certificates seriously and will not hesitate to throw out any aspirant found
wanting in this area. The loss of Bayelsa State at the Supreme Court due to
certificate issues is a learning curve.
Hon Orelope Adefulire who had the support of
Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, had to throw in the towel to the utter embarrassment
of APC national leader and presidential aspirant.
Her
attempt to transfer her support to another aspirant Kayode Opeifa was not
entertained, this is the second time she will be dropping the ball on Tinubu.
In 2015 Hon Orelope Adefulire gave lack of finance as the reason why she could
not run the senatorial race, according to Heritage News.
Though she spined the excuse that the 2022 budget of the Office
of Sustainable Development Goals is N1.2trillion and she would rather remain to
administer this fund. Hon Orelope Adefulire is lieing through the teeth, it is common
knowledge that running a second term presidential appointive mandate as head of
the outfit, the next befitting political trajectory for her would have been the
Senate of the federal republic of Nigeria.
Hon
Orelope Adefulire who has been at loggers head with Alhaji Abdullahi Ayinde
Enilolobo and others over the apex leadership of Alimosho federal constituency,
would have preferred to have political power via elective position, rather than
continuing with the appointive presidential mandate, that can be withdrawn at
any point and which may not be renewed for a third term, by the succeeding
administration post 2023.
Her foundation of certificate fraud put an end to her dream of
being the second woman Senator from Lagos State. To the utter dismay of her
supporters she did not present herself for screening.
Other
politicians in Alimosho federal constituency who fall into her category include
Alhaji Abiodun Abdurasheed Mafe a two term chairman of Mosan Okunola LCDA, who
is presently running for Lagos State House of Assembly Alimosho State
Constituency 01 and businessman Alhaji Idris Balogun (Oluomo Kafata) who is
gunning for House of Representatives.
The two politicians are allies of the SDG Office boss, they are
her preferred aspirants, but they both parade questionable educational
certificates. Though this medium gathered that the duo dropped or will drop
Senior Secondary Certificate Examination SSCE WAEC certificates, a thorough
scrutiny will reveal that the duo are armed with forged basic certificates.
Senator
Tokunbo Afikuyomi had lobbied his colleagues in the APC aspirants screening
committees for soft landing for Lagos State aspirants, but the gale of
petitions that bothers on certificate forgeries have continued to tag Lagos
aspirants, hence adequate attention is on certificates of Alimosho federal
constituency aspirants in particular and Lagos State in general.
“Most of the politicians in Lagos State are armed with forged
certificates” so submits Rekiya Akib an official of the West African Examination
Council engaged by the APC screening committee.
SOURCE: Heritage News